Liisa Galea
@liisagalea.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, Treliving Family Chair in Women’s Mental Health, Prof U Toronto (formerly UBC), Mom, Senior Scientist CAMH
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Liisa Galea
@liisagalea.bsky.social
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Statement from Liisa Galea, Scientific Lead of the Women's Health Research Cluster - Women's Health Research Cluster
We are so proud to have over 800 members across 32 countries in the Women’s Health Research Cluster. Our Vision is to achieve sex and gender health equity, and we strive for a future where women...
womenshealthresearchcluster.com
Here’s my statement as Lead for @whrcluster.bsky.social on the importance of studying women’s health- (& the importance of within & across sex & gender investigations) for our best chance at precision medicine womenshealthresearchcluster.com/learn/womens...
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Canada hasn’t updated its national women’s health strategy since 1999.
In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Canada hasn’t updated its national women’s health strategy since 1999.
In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
In our new episode, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks with
Jennifer Gillivan about bias in research, and why it’s time to mobilize to equalize.
🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/tsrw50Xy8q9
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Started the morning off right with a Skype a Scientist session with 2 3rd grade classes who just read a book about giant squid. Getting bombarded with squid questions first thing in the morning is truly the best start to the day, highly recommend.
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Started the morning off right with a Skype a Scientist session with 2 3rd grade classes who just read a book about giant squid. Getting bombarded with squid questions first thing in the morning is truly the best start to the day, highly recommend.
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So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
So happy to announce our new preprint, “A geothermal amoeba sets a new upper temperature limit for eukaryotes.” We cultured a novel amoeba from Lassen Volcanic NP (CA, USA) that divides at 63°C (145°F) 🔥 - a new record for euk growth!
#protistsonsky 🧵
#protistsonsky 🧵
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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In 2023, there were 11K births to women 45 and over (increase of 450% over 3 decades). There are advantages of being an older age parent: financial security, additional life experience & confidence and grounding gained in the decades before having children. slate.com/life/2025/11...
A Controversial Technology Makes Moms Like Me Possible. Some Scientists Aren’t So Sure if We Should Exist.
The main question shouldn’t be “When am I ready to become a parent?” It’s “When is my child ready to become an orphan?”
slate.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In 2023, there were 11K births to women 45 and over (increase of 450% over 3 decades). There are advantages of being an older age parent: financial security, additional life experience & confidence and grounding gained in the decades before having children. slate.com/life/2025/11...
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Drones are delivering life-saving defibrillators to 911 calls. A new pilot program aims to help EMS respond quicker. #RSNA25
www.popsci.com/health/drone...
www.popsci.com/health/drone...
Drones are delivering life-saving defibrillators to 911 calls
A new pilot program aims to help EMS respond quicker, not act as a replacement.
www.popsci.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Drones are delivering life-saving defibrillators to 911 calls. A new pilot program aims to help EMS respond quicker. #RSNA25
www.popsci.com/health/drone...
www.popsci.com/health/drone...
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The problem facing men is that, like femininity, masculinity is defined by backward stereotypes about what men should be. These stereotypes – signs of financial success, respect & seniority at work & in public – have always been out of reach for many men.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Horror stories of a ‘feminised workplace’ mask the real crisis in male identity | Finn Mackay
Stereotypes that centre men’s worth in their work are strangling sensible debate, and letting down women too, says author Finn Mackay
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The problem facing men is that, like femininity, masculinity is defined by backward stereotypes about what men should be. These stereotypes – signs of financial success, respect & seniority at work & in public – have always been out of reach for many men.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
Up next for @camhnews.bsky.social research day is Tristan Glatard on promises and pitfalls of AI for neuroscience. Two broad ways of using AI. Predictive models and conversational agents.
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Up next for @camhnews.bsky.social research day is Tristan Glatard on promises and pitfalls of AI for neuroscience. Two broad ways of using AI. Predictive models and conversational agents.
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Hot off the press! Just got my copy of GLASS WALLS in paperback. Release date is Dec 11, along with audiobook format. Preorder here: amy-diehl.com/book
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Hot off the press! Just got my copy of GLASS WALLS in paperback. Release date is Dec 11, along with audiobook format. Preorder here: amy-diehl.com/book
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Gotta say, it’s a hard time to be a historian of medicine whose focus was pre-antiseptic / pre-vaccine era.
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Goodbye San Diego! Thank you @sfn.org for another great meeting & exciting science! In the future, I hope to see more progressive work on sex/gender & critical #WomensHealth - related factors -ovarian cycle, menopause, pregnancy- featured in lectures & symposia! See you next year! #SfN25
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Goodbye San Diego! Thank you @sfn.org for another great meeting & exciting science! In the future, I hope to see more progressive work on sex/gender & critical #WomensHealth - related factors -ovarian cycle, menopause, pregnancy- featured in lectures & symposia! See you next year! #SfN25
Interested in how the gut microbiome influences mood, and hormones?? What should you eat to keep your gut microbiome happy? What’s different about men vs women’s gut microbiome? Please give this episode a listen. It’s full fibrey-richness.. 😉 🧄🧅🍌🍐➡️🧠⚕️
This week on the podcast, Dr. @liisagalea.bsky.social talks to Prof Siobhain O'Mahony about gut health, and why it should matter to women.
🎧 Listen now to Episode 7
ow.ly/QeYw50Xu32Z
#WomensHealth #Microbiome #GutHealth
🎧 Listen now to Episode 7
ow.ly/QeYw50Xu32Z
#WomensHealth #Microbiome #GutHealth
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Interested in how the gut microbiome influences mood, and hormones?? What should you eat to keep your gut microbiome happy? What’s different about men vs women’s gut microbiome? Please give this episode a listen. It’s full fibrey-richness.. 😉 🧄🧅🍌🍐➡️🧠⚕️
Dr Karen Reue’s Ori Rotstein Lecture for IMS at U Toronto - on why she studies sex differences. Look at those differences in serum metabolites, gene expression and all thing adipose related
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Dr Karen Reue’s Ori Rotstein Lecture for IMS at U Toronto - on why she studies sex differences. Look at those differences in serum metabolites, gene expression and all thing adipose related
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In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
He Vowed to “Protect the Unborn.” Now He’s Blocking a Bill to Expand Medicaid for Wisconsin’s New Moms.
Splitting with anti-abortion members of his own party, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has refused to join 48 other states in ensuring that vulnerable women have access to potentially lifesaving ...
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 AM
In 48 other states, new moms have access to Medicaid for up to one year after they give birth. Not in Wisconsin.
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
There, the limit remains two months. And it’s only because of one man: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
By @megomatz.bsky.social
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The consequences of misinformation are real and often tragic #vaccines #measles www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The consequences of misinformation are real and often tragic #vaccines #measles www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Follow along for highlights from Deepak’s talk @ncndgroup.bsky.social
How do our brains develop differently depending on sex — and what role do estrogens play? 🧠
Join Dr. Deepak Srivastava (King's College London) Nov 18 for our next Women’s Health Seminar!
7am PDT / 10am EDT
🔗 Register: ow.ly/aXWX50Xl4nO
#womenshealthresearch #neuroscience
Join Dr. Deepak Srivastava (King's College London) Nov 18 for our next Women’s Health Seminar!
7am PDT / 10am EDT
🔗 Register: ow.ly/aXWX50Xl4nO
#womenshealthresearch #neuroscience
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Follow along for highlights from Deepak’s talk @ncndgroup.bsky.social
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After the lunch break, we will have several short presentations, chaired by Annie Butler
First, Ian Harris with 'The varying use of randomisation in “randomised” trials included in systematic reviews in orthopaedic surgery'
Lots of clinical studies are done very poorly.
#IRICSydney
First, Ian Harris with 'The varying use of randomisation in “randomised” trials included in systematic reviews in orthopaedic surgery'
Lots of clinical studies are done very poorly.
#IRICSydney
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
After the lunch break, we will have several short presentations, chaired by Annie Butler
First, Ian Harris with 'The varying use of randomisation in “randomised” trials included in systematic reviews in orthopaedic surgery'
Lots of clinical studies are done very poorly.
#IRICSydney
First, Ian Harris with 'The varying use of randomisation in “randomised” trials included in systematic reviews in orthopaedic surgery'
Lots of clinical studies are done very poorly.
#IRICSydney
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Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Very glad to share our newest paper published in Molecular Psychiatry: Investigating milk-derived extracellular vesicles as mediators of maternal stress and environmental intervention www.nature.com/articles/s41... fun collab w/ @jordanmarrocco.bsky.social. Please enjoy! #OpenAccess #MaternalHealth
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I’m not sure who needs to hear this but RCTs are a tool in our scientific tool kit. It’s a powerful tool but things “go wrong” in RCTs with randomization, primary outcomes (yes you can do secondary analyses), intention to treat etc. RCTs, prospective, observational all have a role to play in science
November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I’m not sure who needs to hear this but RCTs are a tool in our scientific tool kit. It’s a powerful tool but things “go wrong” in RCTs with randomization, primary outcomes (yes you can do secondary analyses), intention to treat etc. RCTs, prospective, observational all have a role to play in science
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Many well-known perimenopause symptoms arise in the brain, but we still know little about the specific mechanisms at play. More research—both in animals and humans—is essential, writes @kundakoviclab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
Perimenopause: An understudied transition for the brain
We know little about the mechanisms underlying well-known perimenopause symptoms in the brain. More research—in animals and humans—is essential.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Many well-known perimenopause symptoms arise in the brain, but we still know little about the specific mechanisms at play. More research—both in animals and humans—is essential, writes @kundakoviclab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/sex-hormones...